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FIVE AM FIRE DESTROYS SHED- Flames could be seen from a
block away as Seaforth firemen put out the blaze in a shed behind
Mr. and Mrs. John Ball's John St. 'house early Monday morning.
Although weather was windy, heavy rain was falling and firemen
kept the blaze away from Bill McLaughlin (Motors, right behind the
shed, and adjacent houses. Mrs. Ball said she did not know who
turned in the alarm and that the fire siren woke her family up. The
shed, which was insured, stored lawn mowers, a barbecue and snow
tires. •Mrs. Ball said the cause of the fire was unknown, but the shed
was wired and possibly mice could have chewed through the wires.
(Staff Photo)
Whole No. 5615
"i116th, Year FIRST MOTION PAGES 1 18 THE R N.,EXPOSITOR, 00TOPER 23, 1975 24 PAGES HU
Egmondville taxpayer
Ask:s ..fOr street I
theaper wafer
(By Wilma Oke)
Alvin Regier of Egmondville
told Tuckersmith council he was
concerned about the lack of street
lights on his street Tuesday night.
He lives on George Street, the
houndary line between
Egmondville and Seaforth, and
the doubling of his water rates by
Seaforth P.U.C.
Egmondville residents who use
Seaforth water pay twice the rate
of Seaforth " home owners for
Seaforth water. With two recent
increases in water rates Mr.
Regier says he now must pay
$180 per year. He said he was
considering drilling a well. He
thought the rate to have
Egmondville water supplied to his
home was high with an
installation cost of $400.
Mr. Regier said he may find out
what his neighbours feel about
digging a well or what they pin
to do to avoid the new high rates
charged by Seaforth PUC.
On the lack of street lights on
his street except for one at the
corner he complained that,
"Tuckersmith is not worrying
about our street. You get the
revenue from the residents op the
street but we , have no street
service, no water service, no
telephone service, no street
lights. When. do yo u figure on
doing anything on that street?
I've been there 12 years and you
have done nothing. Do I get a
rebate on the $18 I've been
'paying for street lights that are
not there? I don't mind paying for
something I'm getting. You get
the assessment of that street, I'm
sure yeu have never paid Seaforth
for the lights when they 'were,
there."
There were Seaforth lights on
the street until the PUC removed
the old poles and put in poles with
high tension wires but no lights.)''
Mr. Regier suggestsed that:
"We would be better off if
Seaforth took over that part of
Egmondville:"
He said taxes would be no
higher in Seaforth compared to
what he pays for .taxes, water
rates, hydrO
Council agreed something
should be done about the street
lighting situation and will contact
the Seaforth PUC again to see
what might be worked out.
The cost of providing and
installing water meters at
Vanastra is to be investigated by
the Vanastra plant staff with the
township clerk, James McIntosh.
Allen Ladbrooke, Manager and
Marc Bell, operations officer of
the Utility Operations of the
London office of the Ministry of
the Environment attended the
council meeting to discuss the
Vanastra Water sytem, the leak
survey carried out by the
Ministry in August, repairs of the
leaks and the use of water meters.
Don McLean, the plant
superintendent, and John Cullen,
the plant operator were at the
meeting. Mr. Cullen said they
found about 30 leaks all on private
property including ten
apartments at Vanastra and none
from the distributer mains to the
property lines. He said with no
metering, people apparently are
not concerned about leakage.
Mr. Cullen named the locationS
of several propetties with leaks
unrepaired. The owners are to be
notified to' fix them up.
If meters are approved news
'water rates will be set to cover
costs.
The Soldan drainage works'
report was provisionally adopted.
This drain is estimated to cost
$4,500 of which 27% per cent is to
be assessed against Tuckersmith
and the rest against Ray
Township.
Tenders are to be called for the
maintenance and repair of the
Layton Dtain and they are to be in
by November 4.
Building permit applications
were approved for: Joost
Veenstra, R.R.5, Clinton,
addition to barnz Gerrit Wynja,
R.R. 4, Seaforth, new house; and
Jim Brown, Egmondville,
addition to trailer. A request for a
garage and workshop from Ron
Hopper, Harpurhey, was turned
down until further information
was received about the use and
appearance of the building that it
would not be unsightly.
Passed for payment was the
Vanastra Recreation payroll
account amounting to $1,233.36
and the tile drainage debenture
repayment amounting to
$1,035.72.
Council accepted the snowplow
tender of Louis McNichol of
Egmondville-at the rate of $21. per
hour and $15 per day stand by
time while not working.
Council will upgrade insurance
(Continued on Page 12)
Pti,despeaker says
'Only psychiatrists get more
stress than H.S. teachers
WI MEMBERS SURPRISED-Two Iona time members
of the Seaforth Womens Institute were surprised.
Monday night when they were presented with life
memberships. Both have been WI members for at
On Fire Board disputes
least 25 consecutive years. Jean Keyes, left
presented the honour to Viola Lawson, while Doris
Hugill, current WI president, received her life
membership from Doreen Coleman. (Staff Photo)
McKillop wants arbitrator
(By Jim Fitzgerald)
Secondary school teachers are
doing a good job in Ontario in
spite of many handicaps, a
Toronto man told about 200
Huron . County teachers on
Monday.
Jim Head of Scarboro, the
co-ordinator of a study on the role
of the secondary school in Ontario
revealed parts of his year long
study into the secondary school to
the teachers who were assprnbled
for a day long prottssional
development seminar at Central
Huron Secondary School in
Clinton.
Mr. Head is preparing a
500,000 word report on the
secondary school based on a
year's study financed by the
Ontario Secondary School Tea-
cher's Federation. , (OSSTF)
The report, which was started
in August of 1974, should be
ready by January of this year and
is expected to raise as much
controversary as the Hall-Dennis
report - did on public school
education in 1967.
The Hall-Dennis report recom-
mented sweeping changes' in the
schools and Mr. Head said that it
neglected to look closer at the
problems of secondary schools.
The report, which solicited mater-
ial through questionnaires to
Corn dryers
are busiest
4 places
One of the busiest places in
town these days has to bethe corn
receiving department at Topnotch
Feeds.
Long lines of farm gravity
wagons heaped high with golden
corn, stand waiting to be emptied
24 haurs a day. Allan Ducharmesof
R.R. 2, Dublin said he has had to
6 wait up to seven or eight hours to
have his wagons unloaded.
Gordon.. MacDonald, elevator
man at the Topnotch plant said
that they are handling up to
15,000 bushels of corn in a day.
The corn is hulled in various
ways. Some , is brougth. in by the
farmer to be dried andtaken back
home, some is stored at the plant
by the farmer and will be taken
(Continued on Page 12).
34,000 secondary teachers,
15,000 students and parents, and
briefs from government agencies,
industry and social agencies, will
in part list 12 areas of concern to
secondary' school teachers.
Problems listed included;
violence and vandalism as a
potential trouble maker here;
declining enrolments because of
the lower birth rate; increased
pregsures on teachers to give
social and moral training without
adequate training; too much
emphasis on political decisions
rather than philosophical ones;
different expectations of various
groups such as parents, teachers,
and trustees; too much admini-
strative bureaucracy and lack of
rewards and incentives in areas
where enrolment is low.
Other important points which
Mr. Head said concerned tea-
chers were stresses for today's
teachers.
"The only other-group subject
to more stressare psychiatrists,"
he said. Mr. Head also said that
teachers are concerned that
schools are becoming too large
and, depersonalized and many,
persons want to know what they
are getting for their money.
"Can the training of students
be equated with the production of
goods?" Mr. Head asked.
The equalities are not the same
for women in secondary schools
Mr. Head said, and female
students too are not receiving the
opportunities as the males.
He said he found that more and
more teachers' are expressing a
professional concern for the direc-
tion of secondary education and
more', and more are becoming
involved in politics to improve the
system.
"Teachers are first and fore-
most people. They are not
libraries, machines or dissemin-
ators of knowledge," Mr. Head
said.
'Discussion • on the legality of
McKillop Township opting out
part of its territory from the
Seaforth Fire Area -Board
continued at the board meeting
Monday night. Seaforth contends
that member municipalities can't
get ant of the agreement until 10
years after ' the agreement for
joint fire protection was signed, in
1980.
Seaforth deputy reeve Bill Dale
says he asked for and got an
official motion from the Board
asking that McKillop be allowed
,to take the northern part of her
township out of the coverage
area. "It's kind of doe,btful", that
Seaforth council will agree,- he
said.
McKillop reeve Allan
Campbell says that the other fire
area members, Hibbert, Hullett
and Tuckersmith feel that they
have already given their okay.
Reeve Campbell says his
lawyer says that the section of the
agreement that bans
municipalities from opting au+
applies only to a municipality as a
whole, not just a portion of one.
He feels that the prohibition
doesn't apply since only part of
the township was removed from
the fire ar ea.
Seaforth's Dale says that once
the Fire Area Board starts
releasing one party, the rest could
decide to go too. "We're not
being tough, we're just standing
(by the agreement. If they can
show the I'm wrong, I'll forget
it," he said. "You can't legislate
for only one municipality."
The McKillop reeve says he
finds the wh' ole thing "most
discouraging". Seaforth should
either agree to McKillop's move
or "say were not getting out and
that's final."
If Seaforth refuses to let the
part of McKillop get out of the
agreement, Campbell says that
McKillop will insist on
re-assessing Seaforth's payments
to the board back to 1971. The
reeve says that Seaforth has been
under assessed because the town
is not paying for fire coverage on
town owned, religious, and other
tax exempt buildings. "The town
hall can burn just as easily as your
house," he points out.
Once Seaforth pays for fire
coverage on these buildings,
McKillop and Seaforth would be
paying about equal percentages
of fire area costs, Reeve Campbell
says.
Deputy Reeve 'Dale said that
there probably should have been
Huron-Bruce
Murray Gaunt
would not be a
leadership of
Liberal party.
Mr. Gaunt, who won his riding
in the September election with a
majority of over 10,000 had been
pressed to announce ghat he
would become a candidate.
Mr. Gaunt, 41, who first was
elected in a 1962 byelection, said
his major reason for not running
is his unwillingness to subject his
young ,,family - to the extra
pressures involved.
Mr. Gaunt, a farmer, Said he
does not feel he could giVe his
party the "decided urban thrust"
fuller public discussion at the
time when McKillop first opted
out, in 1973.
Reeve Campbell said he'd like
a neutral arbitrator, perhaps a
judge from Goderich, to decide
the issue. "If he says no way, well
okay."
that is needed from anew leader.
He said the party did extremely
well in Western Ontario in the
Sept. 18 election, made major
breakthroughs in Eastern Ontario
and held its two seats in Northern
Ontario, but suffered badly in
Metro Toronto where it won only
three of 29 seats.
The Liberals won 36 seats in
the election, losing second place
to the NDP, which won 38 seats.
The Conservatives held on to
power with. 51 seats.
The party has scheduled a
leadership convention for January
23 - 15 to select a leader to
succeed Robert Nixon who
resigned' shortly after the
election.
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GOLDEN KERNELS — Ralph Fisher of Walton and Russell Miller watch the corn
pouring out from one of the three wagon toads that Mr."Fisher.,,brought into the corn
dryer Wednesday. At the height of the rush by local farmers to get their corn dried,
there were six and eight h our waits to use dryers in some places. (Photo by Oke)
Liberal M.P.P.
said Monday he
candidate for the
the Provincial
Gaunt's not a candidate